2009-12-08

Géza Képes: Landscape with Spirit (Lelkes táj)

The idle clouds are deep asleep,
the meadow-scent is dizzying;
Christ-face is the sun with bloody
tears, sudarium is the lake.

Poplar is trembling on the shore,
looking at blood on its torso,
staring, whining with tangled look:
is it its killer, is it, great god?

But evening has fallen: peace-kiss,
the lake enveloped in cool robe.
The silent landscape is listening,
the poplar stopped trembling. Dozed off.

Translated by: Maria Bencsath